ATP - Ukraine’s
prime minister says his government has decided to close the country’s airspace
to all Russian planes.
Kiev banned
all Russian airlines from flying into Ukraine last month, but Russian planes
have been allowed to fly over its territory.
The
decision to shut the airspace was announced by Arseny Yatsenyuk at a televised
government session on Wednesday. It comes as tensions simmer between Russia and
Ukraine following Russia’s annexation of Crimea last year and a separatist war
in eastern Ukraine that has killed more than 8,000 people and left
parts of the industrial heartland in ruins.
The
Russian gas monopoly Gazprom announced earlier on Wednesday that it was cutting
off gas supplies to Ukraine because the country had not paid in advance for
supplies.
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